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Contact: Bill O’Reilly, 212-396-9117
ONE QUESTION FOR GEORGE LATIMER: DID YOU READ STATE BUDGET?
White Plains, NY–March 30…Twenty-five-year career politician George Latimer (D-WFP) claimed last week that he skipped out on Governor Cuomo’s historic vote to begin reforming New York’s unsustainable public employee pension system because he didn’t have a chance to read the bill.
Mr. Latimer’s remarks were widely scoffed at in Albany, where it was clear that Mr. Latimer snuck out of the Assembly Chamber out of fear of losing the support of public employee union bosses and their lobbyists standing in the hallways during the vote. Yet yesterday, Mr. Latimer voted on a 12,380-page state budget, which begs the question: Did he read that document before voting? And, if so, how does he reconcile his earlier statement?
“George Latimer is a nice man, but his consistent lack of political courage as demonstrated during his pension reform non-vote has proved devastating to Westchester household budgets over the years,” said Bill O’Reilly, a spokesman for reform state senate candidate Bob Cohen (R). “A lot of people like George, but no one enjoys him more than Albany’s union bosses who can rely on him to take a walk whenever a reform bill is up for a vote. There is no politician running for office in Westchester County today more responsible for the county’s property tax crisis than George Latimer, and that directly stems from his lack of political courage in Albany.”
Westchester families pay the highest property taxes in America, in part because of the staggering cost of over generous pension sweetheart deals career politicians have agreed to with union bosses in exchange for campaign support. The vote on the Cuomo reform bill Mr. Latimer ducked — again claiming that he didn’t read the bill — was a landmark first-step victory for struggling property-taxpayers. Mr. Latimer was marked “absent” for the vote.
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I doubt he read the budget
I doubt he read the budget bill & somehow Latimer didn’t know what the pension vote was about either. What a worm! I bet his union pals didn’t like Tier IV and he wouldn’t want to cross them, now would he? You know the ones who run the working families party and want to keep their government funded lifestyles going? Read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_Families_Party
Why did he ever get elected and then re-elected? Oh that’s right, nobody pays attention to the NYC led Democratically controlled Assembly. Well the Senate’s a different ball game George and we don’t need your tax & spend ways there. They don’t fit into that body of government.